Satsang With Shambhavi

On January 29, 2017, Shambhavi Sarasvati and the Jaya Kula community got together to talk about how we are, or are not using the circumstance of the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency as spiritual practice. This podcast is a record of our diverse, moving, funny, and sometimes surprising conversation.

We try to escape our real circumstances, both internal and external, in many different ways. But our real circumstance, no matter how painful, is the ground on which we must stand if we want to wake up. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

We humans plan a lot. We live in a prison of past and future thinking. What is a more relaxed way to answer the question "What Should I do Next?" Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Even if you are a die-hard skeptic, waking up inevitably leads to the getting of devotion. Devotion is baked into Reality. Longing will get you there. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

You must agree to take a bitter medicine if you want to wake up. You must relinquish all the claims of small self and live in unconditional reciprocity with circumstances just the way they are. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Sahaja means naturalness, the fruit of direct realization practice. What is naturalness and how can we discover it? This satsang Includes a brief meditation to help you directly experience the natural state. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about the three ways that the desire to be saved shows up when we live in Judeo-Christian-Islamic cultures, what Anandamayi Ma has to say about salvation, and how yogis deal with salvation.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on discovering your real nature. You have to look up and look out and forget about yourself. You have to start investigating the reality that you actually live in.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the nature of God, drawing on her own experience and the siddhas of the Trika tradition. "He is a God because he plays without concern for what is to be obtained or rejected." -Abhinavagupta.

Shambhavi Sarasvati talks about the different kinds of effort we engage in as we progress in our spiritual practice. The satsang is based on the teachings of Anandamayi Ma.

Shambhavi Sarasvati gives a hilarious satsang about the evolution of yogurt from the 1960s to today and how that relates to the process self-realization and the refinement of taste.

Chaos and disappointment are absolute necessities on the spiritual path. It's part of the job of your practice and your teacher to make sure things fall apart. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on failure and success and how any circumstance presents us with an opportunity to wake up.

Stop taking refuge in fear and follow your longing. Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Rather than trying, failing, trying and failing again to take refuge in impermanence, how can spiritual practitioners develop confidence in existence itself, aka God? Satsang with Shambhavi Sarasvati.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the meaning of self-realization from the perspective of direct realization Tantra.

Shambhavi Sarasvati offers a basic introduction to the tradition of direct realization Tantra.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs on the relationship of drugs to spiritual awakening and spiritual experience.

On November 9, 2016, the day after the national election in the U.S., Shambhavi Sarasvati gave this satsang about how spiritual practitioners can work with Donald Trump, impermanence, and our collective changed circumstances.

Shambhavi Sarasvati riffs about the profound meaning of appreciation and how appreciation is the attitude at the heart of divinity and the basis of of all dharmic relating.